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COLONIAL PROVISIONS OF
the Government of a British Possession in accordance with section (1) of Certificates this regulation, or by the Board of Trade, in accordance with section (2) of Compe- tency. of this regulation, to return any certificate which has been cancelled or sus- pended, or to shorten the time for which it is suspended, or to issue a certì- ficate of the same or any lower grade in place of any certificate which has been so cancelled or suspended, the authority so requested as aforesaid shall forthwith return any certificate which has been cancelled or suspended or shorten the time for which it was suspended, or issue a certificate accordingly (as the case may be).
(4) In all cases in which the powers given by this regulation are exercised, a report of the case shall be sent by the Governor or person administering the Government of the Possession in which the powers are exercised to the authority by whom the cancelled or suspended certificate was granted.
Certificates improperly granted may be cancelled without formal investigation.
8. A colonial certificate of competency which appears from information subsequently acquired, or otherwise, to have been improperly granted, may (without any formal investigation under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, or the Acts amending the same) be cancelled by the authority by which the same was granted, or by the Board of Trade in the United King- dom, and the holder of such certificate shall thereupon deliver it to the Board of Trade or such authority, or as they or either of them may direct, and in default thereof shall incur a penalty not exceeding £50, which shall be recoverable in the manner in which penalties imposed by the Acts relating to Merchant Shipping are thereby made recoverable, or in such other sum- mary proceedings as the law of any British Possession where the holder may be, may allow or permit to be brought for the recovery thereof. Cancellation, &c., of a Certificate shall involve cancellation of all the other Certificates possessed by its Owner,
9. Every decision with respect to the cancellation or suspension of a certificate pronounced by any Board, Court, or Tribunal under the provisions of the said Acts, shall, unless otherwise directed, extend equally to all the colonial certificates at the time possessed by the person in respect of whom the decision is made.
Certificates believed to be fraudulent may be demanded.
10. Any officer of the Board of Trade, or the Registrar-General of Seamen, or any of his officers, or a Superintendent of a Mercantile Marine Office, or a consular office, or duly appointed shipping officer in a British Possession, may demand the delivery to him of any colonial certificate of competency which he has reason to believe has been improperly issued, or is forged, altered, cancelled, or suspended, or to which the person using it is not justly entitled, and may detain such certificate for a reasonable period for the purpose of making inquiries respecting such issue, forgery, alteration,